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Knowledge is power : the diffusion of information in early America / Richard D. Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Richard D., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication--United States--History.
- Communication.
- United States--Civilization--To 1783.
- United States.
- United States--Civilization--1783-1865.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Discusses how information moved through 18th- and 19th-century American society, mainly through the expansion of the printed word and its change from the possession of the learned and wealthy into a mass-audience market.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1 Information and Authority in Samuel Sewall's Boston, 1676-1729; 2 William Byrd II and the Challenge of Rusticity Among the Tidewater Gentry; 3 Rural Clergymen and the Communication Networks of 18th-Century New England; 4 Lawyers, Public Office, and Communication Patterns in Provincial Massachusetts: The Early Careers of Robert Treat Paine and John Adams, 1749-1774; 5 Communications and Commerce: Information Diffusion in Northern Ports from the 1760's to the 1790's; 6 Information and Insularity: The Experiences of Yankee Farmers, 1711-1830
- 7 Daughters, Wives, Mothers: Domestic Roles and the Mastery of Affective Information, 1765-18658 William Bentley and the Ideal of Universal Information in the Enlightened Republic; 9 Choosing One's Fare: Northern Men in the 1840's; 10 The Dynamics of Contagious Diffusion: The Battles of Lexington and Concord, George Washington's Death, and the Assassination of President Lincoln, 1775-1865; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published:1989.
- Previously issued in print: 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9780197554999
- 0197554997
- 9780197714164
- 0197714161
- 9781280441349
- 1280441348
- 9781423737537
- 1423737539
- 9781601298577
- 1601298579
- 9780195072655
- 0195072650
- 9780198021346
- 0198021348
- OCLC:
- 475956479
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01336 hdl
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